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Page 79
... language of the law , are denominated infants , and in common speech , minors . By the common law and by statute , males , at the age of four- teen , and females at the age of twelve , are capable of choos- ing guardians , and by the ...
... language of the law , are denominated infants , and in common speech , minors . By the common law and by statute , males , at the age of four- teen , and females at the age of twelve , are capable of choos- ing guardians , and by the ...
Page 83
... language styled infants . ) Such persons are in a situation very different from adults , both as it respects their contracts , and their liability to be punished for crimes . The ages of males and females , are different , for different ...
... language styled infants . ) Such persons are in a situation very different from adults , both as it respects their contracts , and their liability to be punished for crimes . The ages of males and females , are different , for different ...
Page 117
... language , are conversing together , if one utters the word hand , the other understands him ; but if one is an American , or an Englishman , and the other does not under- stand their language , the utterance of the word hand is not ...
... language , are conversing together , if one utters the word hand , the other understands him ; but if one is an American , or an Englishman , and the other does not under- stand their language , the utterance of the word hand is not ...
Page 125
... language ; and the fourth , is a degree of copiousness which shall fully express what is best suited to his purpose . Writers on oratory comprise the art in four divisions ; Inven- tion , Disposition , Elocution and Pronunciation ...
... language ; and the fourth , is a degree of copiousness which shall fully express what is best suited to his purpose . Writers on oratory comprise the art in four divisions ; Inven- tion , Disposition , Elocution and Pronunciation ...
Page 129
... language suggested by the imagination or the passions , and intended to be more em- phatical and beautiful , than the usual mode of expressing the same sense . Tropes are of different kinds . One sort of trope is taken from things ...
... language suggested by the imagination or the passions , and intended to be more em- phatical and beautiful , than the usual mode of expressing the same sense . Tropes are of different kinds . One sort of trope is taken from things ...
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Page 132 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 231 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Page 218 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 232 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 217 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 27 - God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Page 231 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Page 223 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 27 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 217 - She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table...